Jazz radio
2023.03.20 Ras Moshe on Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
The streets of NYC are vibrantly alive with the spirits of the originators and the thrust and tumult of what they created. If, that is, you know how to [...]
2023.01.09 Brian Charette on Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith didn't invent the electric organ but, for several decades at least, you wouldn't know it. The response to his Blue Note and Verve LPs in the [...]
2022.12.12 David Soldier on Miles Davis 1974
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus this Monday (12/12/22) is on Miles Davis with guest David Soldier. Soldier's punk chamber music, elephant orchestra (yes, the [...]
2022.09.05 Graham Haynes on Bill Dixon
Even among his collaborators who were known for going their own way-- Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp, to name but a few-- trumpeter Bill Dixon was an [...]
2022.08.08 Ben Tyree on Pat Martino
Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus is back live on WKCR this Monday (8/8) for the first time since March 2020. Guitarist/sonic architect [...]
2018.03.19 William Hooker on Sunny Murray
Sunny Murray changed our whole conception of what drums could do in music. In this rebroadcast of Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus from 2018, fellow [...]
2015.10.26 Ben Perowsky on Miles Davis
This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman is joined by drummer / bandleader Ben Perowsky. They will put Miles Davis fall 1967 tour in [...]
2013.08.26 Eric Person on Wayne Shorter
Oh, the riches! Not only a Deep Focus on Wayne Shorter's then-recent work with his Quartet, not only the inspired and inspiring Eric Person as Mitch [...]
2014.05.26 Eric Person on Sun Ra
It's after the end of the world. Don't you know that yet? Host Mitch Goldman and saxophonist Eric Person put Sun Ra in Deep Focus tonight (5/2) on WKCR [...]
2015.02.09 Andy Caploe on Sonny Rollins
Rebroadcast March 28, 2022.
I know you think of me as the on-air host at WKCR 89.9FM on Monday nights from 6pm to 9pm but the truth is that I have only been [...]